{"id":316538,"date":"2025-08-04T07:09:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T07:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/316538\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T07:09:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T07:09:10","slug":"still-insists-southampton-know-they-need-creative-reinforcements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/316538\/","title":{"rendered":"Still insists Southampton know they need creative reinforcements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Still claimed Southampton, who have only signed two players this summer, are working on adding much-needed creativity to their squad.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Saints struggled to create chances during\u00a0their\u00a02-2 draw against Brighton on Saturday until teenager Jay Robinson was introduced with 30 minutes to go.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Still also pointed towards\u00a0Tyler Dibling and currently injured midfielder Flynn Downes\u00a0as players Saints\u00a0can rely on this season.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Asked if the first 60 minutes highlighted their need to sign creative players, Still admitted: &#8220;Yes, but I think that was reflected last week as well when we were in Spain.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   alt=\"Southampton's Jay Robinson pictured after Southampton's 2-2 draw with Brighton.\" style=\"width: 100%;\"\/>Southampton&#8217;s Jay Robinson pictured after Southampton&#8217;s 2-2 draw with Brighton. (Image: Stuart Martin) &#8220;We know that, I think everyone knows that. We&#8217;re working on it, we&#8217;re trying to get it right. It&#8217;s a shame we\u00a0couldn&#8217;t play\u00a0Jay from the start.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;We need to take care of him as well. He had a problem with his hamstrings during the week.\u00a0And Tyler couldn&#8217;t obviously play this second game.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;So, we have got good players and creative players. Flynn&#8217;s still not in the team.\u00a0We know that there are a few positions where we need to strengthen.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;We know that there is interest for others. We&#8217;ll just see how it goes. But I think the main positive and the big positive is that everyone is on the same line. Everyone agrees.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Although Jan Bednarek and Aaron Ramsdale have left Saints in the last week, Still continues to\u00a0work with a bloated squad which needs to be reduced.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  With interest being shown in players ranging from Tyler Dibling and Mateus Fernandes to Joe Aribo and Sam Edozie, Still is\u00a0confident they will offload players.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   alt=\"Joe Aribo is weighing up his Saints future with clubs showing interest in him this summer.\" style=\"width: 100%;\"\/>Joe Aribo is weighing up his Saints future with clubs showing interest in him this summer. (Image: Southampton FC\/Matt Watson) READ:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyecho.co.uk\/sport\/25361089.still-reveals-transfer-interest-southampton-midfielder\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8216;See how that develops&#8217; &#8211; Still reveals transfer interest in Aribo<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Given the overloaded nature of their squad in recent seasons, Saints are reluctant to repeat previous mistakes of signing players before moving others on.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;I think we&#8217;ve started really shifting players out and forming a squad that we can work with short to mid-term &#8211; but that&#8217;s just a transfer window,&#8221; Still added.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;The players that are on the pitch are focused on what they&#8217;re doing, and everyone in the building knows what the situation is.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Yes, there are still players that will go. There are a few players that will come in, but that&#8217;s just like at any football club.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;We know what we&#8217;re doing. We know what direction we want to go in. So, that&#8217;s all fine,&#8221; he concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Still claimed Southampton, who have only signed two players this summer, are working on adding much-needed creativity to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[94,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-316538","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114969245383729108","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}